Here’s a little tribute video to Banksy, probably the most famous graffiti artist alive:
Street art is probably one of the most difficult discourses to pin down, mostly because it strives to operate outside of conventional artistic discourse. It is a product of urban culture that seeks to transcend or at least question the culture it comes out of. It is at once a reclamation of public space, pop artifact, and political subversion. The canvass is dragged out kicking and screaming from sterile gallery walls and static museum centerpieces. Most art attempts a dialog with the culture around it, but graffiti lives that dialog, embeds itself physically in the environment it wishes to comment upon. Because of this even the most benign graffiti is subversive. It assaults us when we least expect it; it transforms the familiar and the safe. I know C. is very interested this stuff (congrats again on the scholarship! – Berlin is graffiti central) so here is some more unusual street-art, this time based on human anatomy:
More can be found here.
And finally, here are some pictures I took in Berlin:
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